Sonia Gandhi: Common people became the heart and soul of Indian democracy in the past 60 years

While speaking on the occasion of the celebration of the 60^th year of Parliament, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said that while Parliament’s integrity and independence must be preserved at all cost, it must not only be a source of law and power but also justice and compassion. Sonia Gandhi underlined that that the greatest triumph of the country in the last sixty years is that the common people became the heart and soul of Indian democracy.

“The poor and illiterate masses have again and again voted with wisdom, they have voted with purpose, sometimes reaffirming their faith in those who govern them, sometimes voting them out, said the Congress President"

Noting that India's freedom struggle reinvented the idea of democracy, Sonia Gandhi said, "If there is one thread running through these past six decades, it is that people's power is felt constantly at the highest levels of governance."

The Congress MP from Raebareli added that Indian social legislations have emerged as a global benchmark today and the laws enacted in last sixty years have especially protected the excluded and the marginalized. "My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest," said Sonia Gandhi quoting Mahatma Gandhi.

The Congress President also paid tributes to the security personnel, who sacrificed their life in 2001 when Parliament had come under a terrorist attack.

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